The CEO and upper management do loads to steer the ship. If all they care about is enriching themselves, they will likely struggle to find developers who are in it for the passion.
Look at Google. It is a late-stage, post-IPO business that’s now, frankly, ran by the CFO with a CEO who cares only about the board and an ever-increasing stock number.
The people who have passion left for the most part. Replaced by those who only seek to enrich themselves and climb the perf ladder.
Would those who have passion stuck around if Google was ran by people who still had passion? I’d imagine a much greater number of them would still be there.
I’m surprised to see such irrelevant and sensationalized information being pushed to the top of the comment section of a hn post.
Does a crime that happened 34 years ago, and a sentence served for said crime, hold any at all relevance to the medical breakthrough posted here?
Does a questionably-ethical nonprofit’s viewpoint matter on said medical breakthrough?
No to either.
As someone who knows a handful of devs and hear their near daily grievances of google, it seems like the culture over there has died and it’s just a bog standard Big Corp(tm) now.
By how they describe it, a lot of the people, (but not all of course), who deeply care about the ‘craft’ of development have retired or moved onto more interesting roles at newer and more exciting companies and were replaced by people whose main driving force is climbing the corporate ladder at a FAANG.
As a result the perf cycles/promotions seem to be heavily based on high impact projects/launches, leaving the “little things” like bad search results or other maintenance work forever on the back burner, because working on those things won’t get you a promotion/more money.
Are you equally pedantic on the colloquial classification of nuts when a large portion of the "nuts" we eat are actually drupes?
Or fruit vs vegetable classifications?
Perhaps language is a tool used to convey meanings and ideas in ways that are quickly and concisely understandable. The "plant-based" insert_animal_food_name allows people to understand that this food item is meant to mimic an animal-based food item, except it's derived from plants.
What are the long term ramifications of Twitter outrage circles canceling people whose ideas don’t exactly align with the mob?
I used to think this trend would fizzle off, or that institutions would learn to ignore a vocal minority, but it seems like neither of these are happening; that the problem is only becoming more perverse.
Is this a predominantly North American thing, do other countries handle challenging discourse better?
Not sure if this is a joke or not, but that estimated capacity it seems like it would be 20x less MW than if all the reactors destined for that site were finished.
I didn’t do the calculations but I wouldn’t be surprised if the lifetime of the solar wouldn’t even offset the carbon cost of all the unfinished reactors.
I find that strange, I use Firefox as well, along with containers, ublock origin, and privacy badger (if those might make a difference) but my private browsing YouTube looks nothing like my non-private browsing youtube
I’d imagine it’s from lack of use in daily writing, combined with a lack of a ubiquitous context-aware spell checker.
I make similar mistakes quite often
While I agree that gas stoves put out more VOCs than most people would imagine, the fact that humans have been cooking inside on either wood or gas stoves for many hundreds of years, gives testament to the idea that it can’t really be /that/ detrimental to human health. Sure it would be better without them, but I’d imagine that the health gains would be marginal at best.
I feel like USB-C is cursed enough on its own. The sheer number of times I’ve had to explain to family members why just because the two USB-C ports on a laptop look the same, doesn’t mean they work the same.
It's amazing how much security people and companies are willing to give up for a smidge of convenience. Properly deployed CCTV has little worry of hackers since, hence it's name, it is closed-circuit.
Forever benchmarking on old hardware is counterintuitive to forward progress.
As much as I love my T400, I know someday, probably sooner rather than later, it won’t be suited to daily use.
Seems cool and very interesting. I don’t have too much to add beyond giving praise due to the sheer number of low-quality replies on this submission.
If the people who made this are reading; don’t let an off-day on hn discourage you.
I'm not convinced either. I don't think I'll see a 100% FSD vehicle in my lifetime, at least the ones depicted in futuristic renderings without steering wheels.
Case in point, how does a FSD vehicle deal with extremely heavy snowfall on a unplowed road? I spent 15 minutes rocking the car back and forth, so I could slowly back my way out of a one-way road onto a main street.
After that I had to drive on countless roads with no visible markings due to the snow. I don't think the way we're approaching self driving cars today will ever work for these edge cases.
Parsec. Being able to seamlessly use my home computer from anywhere in the world was pretty jaw dropping for me the first time I used it, it felt no different from using it directly in person. Playing local-only games with friends connecting to my pc from different parts of the country was equally seamless and amazing.
For some reason Firefox absolutely cannot play 720p+ 60fps videos on YouTube for me, whereas opening the same video on Edge I can play 4K 60fps videos without a single problem.
I've tried this the past three times it's made it to the front page. Using both an iPhone and iPad with safari I was unable to even connect the server. It acts like it's loading then fails.
I agree, as I write this from a 25mbps connection with a 1tb datacap.
For me personally, I wouldn't mind waiting a day or two for a multi-hundred gig file to download, but my datacap sure would.
With this seemingly becoming the new norm, I hope streaming services can find a way to make the quality of streams better or offer a way to temporarily download a new movie at a higher quality. Streams still lag behind Blu-ray by quite a margin. Maybe if we could get something between Blu-ray and the DCP files theaters get. Or even just Blu-ray quality would be a greatly appreciated upgrade.
Streaming such a high fidelity movie seems like a waste. Seeing the difference between a UHD 4K Blu-ray and a stream of the “same quality” it’s almost night and day.